Deep orange, midnight black, electric violet, acid green — the colours of the uncanny, the playful frightening, and the thinning of boundaries between worlds.
Halloween's palette is one of the most recognisable in the Western calendar: the vivid orange of the carved pumpkin against absolute darkness, purple as the colour of mystery and the space between states, acid green as the colour of potion and poison and old apothecary bottles. These are colours that create deliberate tension — warm against cool, vivid against dark, playful against threatening. The orange is the warmest thing in the room; the black absorbs everything around it. Halloween requires exactly this contrast: safety and unease, familiar and strange, the comfort of candy and the edge of something older.
RGB (178-73-21)
#b24915
This medium orange sits at the vivid end of its family.
The Antique Arch beyond the Holding →RGB (91-21-117)
#5b1575
This dark violet sits at the vivid end of its family.
The Derelict Cairn During the Devouring →RGB (33-203-11)
#21cb0b
vivid and medium — a green that reads as grounded.
The Distant Basin round Pacing →RGB (186-28-23)
#ba1c17
This medium red sits at the vivid end of its family.
The Bay of Known in Ripening →RGB (117-51-10)
#75330a
This dark orange sits at the vivid end of its family.
Deadened Boulder betwixt the Yielding →:root { --halloween-1: #b24915; --halloween-2: #5b1575; --halloween-3: #21cb0b; --halloween-4: #ba1c17; --halloween-5: #75330a;}